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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
Núr, Mázindarán, Iran
8 stories took place here — most often featuring Bahá'u'lláh, Mírzá Muḥammad-Taqíy-i-Núrí and the Báb.
Núr (today: Núr, Mázindarán, Iran)
In the green province of Mázindarán, in the ancestral district of Núr, the young Bahá'u'lláh was known and loved long before His ministry began. The Dawn-Breakers remembers a Nobleman of singular wisdom and kindness whom the people of His homeland honoured and cherished — a love that prepared the way for the day He would bring them the greatest of all gifts.
In His youth, before the Báb had declared His mission, Bahá'u'lláh paused one day to listen to a famous divine of Núr lecturing to his disciples — and resolved in a few words a question none of them could answer. The learned man was left troubled, and then was visited by two dreams that told him, in images he could not mistake, Who the young Nobleman really was.
Soon after He recognized the Báb, the young Bahá'u'lláh carried the new Message home to the district of His fathers, Núr. With matchless eloquence and fearless zeal He won over officials, notables, and even His own relatives — and when a leading divine sent two of his ablest emissaries to refute Him, they returned utterly transformed instead.
In 1844, while Bahá'u'lláh was still veiled from the eyes of men, a wandering dervish cooking his food by a brook in the district of Núr was, in a single brief conversation, "changed completely" — and recognised the Light that no one else yet saw. Leaving his cooking-pots behind, he rose and followed on foot, chanting a love-song whose refrain has outlived his name: "Thou art the Light of Truth."
In *Stories of Bahá'u'lláh* the Hand of the Cause Mr. 'Alí-Akbar Furútan preserves two early memories of the Blessed Beauty's childhood: His unusual composure as an infant, who almost never cried, and a prophetic dream He described at age five or six in which He stood unharmed amid attacking sea creatures and birds — interpreted by a noted dream-reader as a foreshadowing of His future Cause.
Among the childhood stories Hand of the Cause Furutan gathered into his *Stories of Bahá'u'lláh* is the recollection of how the young Mírzá Ḥusayn -‘Alí — long before His Declaration — would refuse to settle a quarrel among His playmates without first hearing both sides, and how the household began to recognize a quiet authority in the boy.
Among the recollections of Bahá'u'lláh's boyhood Mr. Furutan preserves in *Stories of Bahá'u'lláh* is the dream the child once had of a great moving spectacle in the sky — birds, fish, a green sea — that He told to His father the next morning, and whose meaning the household began only later to suspect.
Mr. Furutan preserves, in *Stories of Bahá'u'lláh,* the family recollection of an evening in the snowbound forests of Núr when the young Mírzá Ḥusayn-ʿAlí walked alone into the storm to visit a sick villager — and the household that, the next morning, found Him sitting calmly by the cottage fire as if the journey had been an errand of an ordinary noon.